Pacific Performances Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas

by Balme, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9781403985989
• ISBN10: 1403985987
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This study explores the history of cross-cultural performative encounters in the Pacific from the eighteenth century to the present.

Author Biography

Christopher B. Balme is a Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Munich, Germany.

Table of Contents

Introduction * Pacific Overtures--Trumpets, Beaches, and Women * Staged Authenticity--Theatricalizing the South Seas in Europe 1785-1830 * Comedians and Crusaders--Anti Theatrical Prejudice in the South Seas * Dressing the Hulas and Taming the Haka--Performing Identity in Hawaii and New Zealand * Kindred Spirits--Spectacles of Samoa in Wilhelminian Germany * Birds of Paradise--American Pacific Dramas of Displacement * 'As You Always Imagined It'--The Pacific as Tourist Spectacle * Translocations and Transgressions--Performance in the Pacific Diaspora * Bibliography

Introduction * Pacific Overtures--Trumpets, Beaches, and Women * Staged Authenticity--Theatricalizing the South Seas in Europe 1785-1830 * Comedians and Crusaders--Anti Theatrical Prejudice in the South Seas * Dressing the Hulas and Taming the Haka--Performing Identity in Hawaii and New Zealand * Kindred Spirits--Spectacles of Samoa in Wilhelminian Germany * Birds of Paradise--American Pacific Dramas of Displacement * 'As You Always Imagined It'--The Pacific as Tourist Spectacle * Translocations and Transgressions--Performance in the Pacific Diaspora * Bibliography